Alaskas Little Chief with CD - Judy Ferguson

Alaska’s Little Chief and Alaska’s Secret Door are non-fiction Alaskana children’s books, presenting living mentors: First Traditional Chief of Tanana Chiefs Conference, David Salmon as well as Emmitt Peters, record-setter of the 1975 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Includes curriculum CD

Mush with 10-year old David Salmon and his pet ermine through Gwich'in Athabascan traditional life.

In the 1920s, an epidemic forced David, today's First Traditional Chief of the Interior, and his father, to leave their village and trap for eighteen years in No Man's Land. The fur-bearing animals (wolverine, fox, ermine, marten, lynx, and wolf) of Alaska were their daily and closest companions.

Alaska’s Little Chief - Written by Judy Ferguson; illustrated by Nikola Kocic; published by Glas. Alaska's Little Chief is the Athabascan people’s presentation of traditional life.
In October 2005, the response to Alaska's Little Chief and Alaska's Secret Door at Alaska Federation of Natives

(AFN) convention was overwhelming, confirming that Alaska’s Little Chief and Alaska’s Secret Door fill a gap: portraits of Native elder personal sagas, windows of our unique heritage.
Unusual for a children’s book, ALC and ASD include maps, bi-lingual glossaries and a full letter from Chief David Salmon. Through dynamic, colorful paintings of living heroes, Native and non-Native children are swept off the road system and immersed into the vast majority of Alaska where most will never go: the Bush where the river is the only road.